Faculty
Dr. Sonia Anand, MD PhD FRCPC is the inaugural Director of the McMaster Population Genomics Program. Her research is aimed at understanding the environmental and genetic causes of cardiovascular risk factors among women, First Nations peoples and ethnic groups throughout the world.
Core faculty
Sonia Anand
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Recognized internationally for her groundbreaking research, Dr Anand was appointed to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario/ Michael G. DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research in 2008.
Research Interests
Clinical epidemiology; population health; women's health; aboriginal health; cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, nutrition.
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Joseph Beyene
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Appointed to the John D. Cameron Endowed Chair in the Genetic Determinants of Chronic Disease in 2010.
Research Interests
Multi-level modeling in linkage and association analysis, and applications of statistical techniques in genetics; development of statistical methods for genomic data
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Russell de Souza
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Research Interests
Advancing methodology for systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and clinical trials in the field of nutrition; the contribution of dietary patterns and macronutrients (specifically fructose, saturated and trans fats) to cardiovascular disease risk throughout the lifespan; the reproducibility and validity of current methods of assessing nutrient intakes.
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Matthew Lanktree
Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Bio
Dr. Matt Lanktree is a clinician scientist and assistant professor in adult nephrology genetics who cares for patients with chronic and end-stage kidney disease at St. Joseph Healthcare Hamilton and McMaster University. Dr. Lanktree obtained a combined MD and PhD at Western University with research in human genetics before residency in internal medicine and nephrology at McMaster University. He then completed a post-doctoral research fellowship in heritable kidney disease at University of Toronto before returning to McMaster as Faculty in 2019. Dr. Lanktree has published over 60 articles in high impact journals in genetics and medicine and has set his goal to translate genetic studies into improved care of patients with kidney disease.
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David Meyre
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Research Interests
The genetic epidemiology of metabolic diseases; obesity and type 2 diabetes; genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in complex diseases; the identification of novel susceptibility genes in ethnic populations.
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Guillaume Paré
Pathology and Molecular Medicine, joint appointment in Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Appointed to the Canada Research Chair in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology in 2010.
Research Interests
Molecular and genetic determinants of cardiovascular diseases in general and stroke prevention in particular
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Marie Pigeyre
Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine
Bio
Marie Pigeyre is a clinician scientist at PHRI, interested in biomarkers and genetics of obesity and type 2 diabetes. She graduated a MD in endocrinology and PhD in epidemiology and genetics in Lille university (France). She followed a post-doctoral fellowship in Dr Paré Lab, and has a position of assistant professor in the Medicine department (endocrinology division) at McMaster University since July 2019. Her current research consists in identifying novel biomarkers involved in type 2 diabetes, as well as its vascular consequences.
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Jason Roberts
Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine
Bio
Jason Roberts is a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist at Hamilton Health Sciences, a PHRI Scientist, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at McMaster University. As a clinician researcher, Jason’s interests have focused primarily on exploring potential genetic contributions to cardiac arrhythmias and attempting to improve our clinical understanding of genetic arrhythmia syndromes. He completed his training in cardiac electrophysiology at UCSF and his cardiology fellowship at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. He holds a Master’s degree in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics from UCSF.
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Zena Samaan
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Associate Member in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Core faculty at the Peter Boris Centre for Addiction Research at McMaster University.
Research Interests
Complex depression, predictors of suicidal behaviour and substance use disorders with an emphasis on biological markers, including genetic variants.
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AssociateFaculty
Angelo Canty
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Associate Member, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Research Interests
Computational statistics and the analysis of genetic data
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Judah Denburg
Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Department of Medicine
Research Interests
The developmental biology of eosinophils, basophils and mast cells, and their regulation in allergic inflammation
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Brian Golding
Department of Biology
Research Interests
Molecular evolution, DNA sequence analysis, phylogenetics, population genetics, bioinformatics
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Mark Loeb
Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Research Interests
Clinical epidemiology; emerging infectious diseases; population genetics and infectious diseases; prevention of influenza; antimicrobial use and resistance; acute care hospital epidemiology
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Hendrik Poinar
Department of Anthropology
Research Interests
Molecular evolutionary genetics and biological anthropology
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Peter Szatmari
Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact
Research Interests
Psychiatric and genetic epidemiology; preschool children with autism; adolescent psychopathology and high risk behaviours; sampling and measurement issues
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Gerry Wright
Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Research Interests
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance; reversing resistance with small molecules; origins, evolution and sources of resistance; yeast chemical genetics to identify new antibiotic-target pairs; genetic manipulation of antibiotic producing bacteria; investigation of unconventional antibiotic targets such as virulence factors; use of chemically modified antibiotics to identify targets and activities; discovery of new natural product antibiotics
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Kevin Zbuk
Department of Oncology, Division of Medical Oncology
Research Interests
Cancer genetics, molecular classification of gastrointestinal polyposis syndromes
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External Faculty Collaborators
Heather Cordell
Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle University, UK.
Research Interests
Development of statistical methodology for detection and characterization of genetic factors in complex disease
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James ("Jamie") Engert
Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Research Interests
Investigating the genetics of heart disease, conditions that lead to heart disease such as obesity and diabetes. High throughput genotyping of microsatellite markers and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) will allow linkagea and association studies as well as linkage disequilibrium mapping.
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Bernard Keavney
Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Manchester University, UK.
Research Interests
Finding genes that cause heart and circulatory disease